/vr/ - Retro Games

Bump with an Enix game, not a very good one though. It's a racing game called "Checker Flag" released in 1983.

It's a topdown racer with a course map displayed on the screen. You'll get to do a 5 lap time trial on a track of choice. Your best lap gets counted for the high score, but you don't actually have to finish the entire 5 laps for it to check which is nice. The author probably crashed a lot. You'll notice it shows the RPM and gear you're in. This isn't just fluff that is automatically managed.

The control scheme is rather uncomfortable, accelerator is on numpad (.), braking is on numpad (,) to which I don't have access to and the emulator where I could easily remap it didn't want to boot the compilation disk. Clutch is numpad 0 which then gets followed by pressing numpad 1-5 for whichever of the 5 gears you want. You'll want to shift gears after 7000 RPM as that's when your best window of acceleration ends (4000-7000), you can hold on for a bit longer and skip a gear though.
Steering works by 4 buttons. CF for left and BG for right. Why 2 buttons? Gentle and hard steering are mapped separately this way. You can hold them both and sharp will take priority over gentle, allowing you to correct a bit.

There are also penalties, 1 for stalling your engine and 1 for stalling off course (at least I think it's stalling off course, I didn't check my timer). Both incur a 5 second time penalty. It also has "penalties" for crashing out of the grass entirely and overrevving your engine for too long or by downshifting to get far too high revs, both are just retirements though.

You get 2 tracks, B is picrel and A is a testing oval (long gentle corner with long straights in between).